Sussex South and Crawley (European Parliament constituency)


Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.
The constituency of Sussex South and Crawley was one of them.
It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Brighton Kemptown, Brighton Pavilion, Crawley, Hove, Mid Sussex, Shoreham, and Worthing.
1994 492,413 37.6
B.P. Donnelly
Mrs. J. Edmond Smith
D.J. Williams
Miss P.J. Beever
D. Horner
J.N.P. Furness
A.M.A. Hankon C
Lab
L Dem
GP
Ind
Ind C
NLP 62,860
61,114
41,410
9,348
7,106
2,618
901
1,746
33.0
22.3
5.1
3.8
1.4
0.5
0.9
Notes:-
1994: Donnelly resigned from the Conservative Party in January 1999 due to opposition to what he perceived as its anti-European policy.
Horner sought election as an 'Independent Euro Sceptic' candidate.
Furness was the candidate of an unofficial Conservative association in the constituency. The policy of the unofficial association was right wing and the party opposed a federal structure for the European Union.